These 'good works' are explained in Matthew as it says. 'For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.' (Titus 2:11-14) Only through the blood of Jesus Christ shed out on the cross of Calvary is one saved from the penalty of his sin which is the death of one's spirit and eternity spent away from God, in darkness. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.' (Romans 3:21-25) 'But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it - the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. With the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the earth and with his death and resurrection and return back to the Father in heaven we are relieved of the Law of Moses and can come into the righteousness God simply through faith in Jesus as Lord and Master of all.

Be not wise in your own eyes fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.' (Proverbs 3:5-7) In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make straight your paths. 'Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. Having lost the fear of God is a major problem in the lives and futures of man for without repentance of sin and redemption from sin, all are lost and forever apart from God.Р”Р„s the Bible says, 'The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge fools despise wisdom and instruction.' (Proverbs 1:7) 'There is no fear of God before their eyes.' (Romans 3:18)

All have returned aside together they have become worthless no one does good, not even one.' (Romans 3:11-12) 'None is righteous, no, not one no one understands not one seeks for God. That lost or sin nature is what the apostle Paul is referring to in the book of Romans when he says, Inherited from the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, as they sinned against God in the Garden of Eden. MaAll men are born under sin, with what is referred to as the 'sin nature,' disobedience to the will of God.

Born in darkness